On: Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (2018)

[C1sc0cat]

Try launching a one person it company in the UK you will deemed to be an employee under IR35.

1099 status in the US is almost as sucky

[tonyedgecombe → C1sc0cat]

I run a one person company in the UK and I definitely don't fall under IR35.

Also IR35 doesn't provide any of the workers rights that employees get such as sick pay or notice of termination.

[C1sc0cat → tonyedgecombe]

Want to run that past HMRC or try working for any public body, Oh apart form "self employed" barristers, funny they seem excluded unlike us greasy engineers and boffins

With IR35 its much more favourable tax treatment on 2x to 3x FTE pay

[tonyedgecombe → C1sc0cat]

Want to run that past HMRC

I have. I also have many public sector customers. Not every one person business is a freelancer or contractor.